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phizzl/php-ssh2-client
======================

Library for transfering files via SSH2

v1.0.0(8y ago)17GPL-3.0PHP

Since Sep 28Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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SSH2 client
===========

[](#ssh2-client)

A SSH2 client written in PHP

Authentication
--------------

[](#authentication)

You may choose between the authentication modes pubkey, password and none.

### Authentication with password

[](#authentication-with-password)

```
$auth = new PasswordAuthentication("vagrant", "vagrant");
```

### Authentication with public and private keypair

[](#authentication-with-public-and-private-keypair)

```
$auth = new PublicKeyAuthentication("vagrant", "/path/to/id_rsa.pub", "/path/to/id_rsa", "keypassword");
```

### No authentication

[](#no-authentication)

```
$auth = new NoneAuthentication("vagrant");
```

Creating the SSH2 session
-------------------------

[](#creating-the-ssh2-session)

After you configured your authentication you may create the SSH2 session and pass the authentication to it.

```
$auth = new PasswordAuthentication("vagrant", "vagrant");
$session = new SshSession("localhost", 22, $auth);
```

Creating the SSH2 client
------------------------

[](#creating-the-ssh2-client)

Now that you have a session you can create the SSH2 client and pass the session to it.

```
$auth = new PasswordAuthentication("vagrant", "vagrant");
$session = new SshSession("localhost", 22, $auth);
$sshClient = new SshClient($session);
```

Using the SSH2 client
---------------------

[](#using-the-ssh2-client)

After you created the SSH2 client you are ready to use it.

```
$sshClient->sendFile('/local/path/to/file.txt, '~/uploads/file.txt');
```

```
$sshClient->receiveFile('~/downloads/remote.file', '/local/path/local.file');
```

```
$sshClient->removeFile('~/downloads/remote.file');
```

```
$sshClient->createDirectory('~/uploads/newdir');
```

```
$sshClient->removeDirectory('~/uploads/newdir', true)
```

```
$sshClient->sendDirectory('/local/dir', '~/uploads/newdir');
```

```
$sshClient->removeDirectory('~/uploads/newdir', true);
```

```
$sshClient->receiveDirectory('~/downloads/backup', '/local/dir/backup');
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3145d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Tags

sshfiletransfer

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